Oriire and the courage to reject compromise, by Rotimi Fasan
After 56 harrowing days, the 44 abductees in the Oriire community of Ogbomoso LGA are now out of the forest. These are schoolchildren and their teachers. Two of the teachers had been killed after the abduction while another was killed on their school ground. A commercial bike rider was also killed as the abduction unfolded. But […]
ELECTRICITY: FG’s debt hits N6trn as GenCos push for urgent payment
By Obas Esiedesa, Abuja Power generation companies, yesterday intensified pressure on the Federal Government (FG) to urgently address the worsening liquidity crisis in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) as debts owed to them have risen to N6 trillion. The Chairman of the Association of Power Generation Companies (APGC) Board, Col. Sani Bello (Retd), expressed concern […]
The ever-lingering Benue-Plateau crisis(2), by Eric Teniola
From last week continues the narrative on the Benue-Plateau crisis based on early encounters with Chief Solomon Lar in Jos and Chief Joseph Tarka in Makurdi. I visited Makurdi for the first time in 1977, courtesy of Chief Joseph Sarwuan Tarka. On March 30, this year, it was 45 years that Chief Joseph Sarwuan Tarka (July […]
It’s all so confusing, by Hakeem Baba-Ahmed
On all matters of national security, the responsible thing to do is exercise restraint, discretion and distance as dictated by one’s proximity to facts and commitment to the general good. Precisely for the same reasons, however, matters involving lives and livelihoods, peace and public safety cannot be left entirely to leaders. There is a huge […]
We must save Dangote Refinery at all costs
By Dele Sobowale “Our refinery has recorded 22 incidents of sabotage” — Dangote Nigerian history, since my return from the US in 1974, has always made me to thank God, that I not only read History as an elective subject as an undergraduate in the US; but, that the interest remains abiding. In fact, if I […]
Seismic shifts and power contestation between Nigerians and government, by Owei Lakemfa
Aliko Dangote has become the first African-born billionaire to reach and surpass a $30 billion net worth. This October, 2025, with a new valuation gain of $430 million, he achieved a net worth of $30.3 billion. But, his on-going quixotic contestations with the Nigerian Constitution and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UDHR, may turn […]
Ese Oruru: The inspiring triumph of a survivor
In April 2020, then governor of Kano State in north-west Nigeria, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, took time off his expensive preoccupation with denying the ravages of the Corona Virus on his state to preside over the “conversion” to Islam of two adolescent females.
Gold diggers and cradle snatchers, by Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi
Sunderland climbed to second in the Premier League as Chemsdine Talbi’s stoppage time winner stunned Chelsea, while Newcastle also struck late to beat Fulham 2-1 on Saturday.
Hon Benjamin Kalu, a quintessential legislator, by Dele Sobowale
“Legislators have the first place in the temple of glory; conquerors come behind them” – Voltaire, 1694-1778, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 126. Voltaire, the French philosopher, was writing at the dawn of history of democracy; and at a time and country elected representatives of the people actually went into parliament to represent them. Nigeria […]
Another unpalatable story, by Patrick Omorodion
When Anezi Okoro wrote his comedic novel, One Week, One Trouble, about a boy who got into trouble in school almost every week, he never knew it would fit into the character of the Nigeria Football Federation, especially the current one headed by Ibrahim Musa Gusau. Like the proverbial tortoise that is always in the […]
Who is in Nursery School, My Child or Me?, by Stephanie Shaakaa
Once upon a time, nursery school was where children learned to sing rhymes, draw the sun with yellow crayons, and stumble through the alphabet
Where did the gain go? The silence after surplus, by Stephanie Shaakaa
When there’s a deficit you shout and go borrowing, but when there’s a surplus no one gives account
These defections and this democracy, by Ugoji Egbujo
Gov. Peter Mbah has left the PDP for the ruling party. Gov. Diri is packing his defection bags. Gov. Soludo is proposing an alliance of the progressives: a capitulation that spares him the tag of a defector. Fubara is a caged bird. Adeleke is keen to defect. By 2027, all the state governors in the south could […]
A level playing field for your children, by Francis Ewherido
I have previously written about the dangers of having a favourite or favourites among your children: only male child, first male child, eldest child, baby of the house, “the most intelligent child,” etc. The same process brought them into this world, so I do not really see any reason for the favourite child syndrome while raising them. […]
Agbogidi, Asika in Nafest
Those who do not know Igwe Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe are missing out in so many areas. The Obi of Onitsha, a lover of Arts and Culture, is as polished as the most exposed diplomat and knows almost everything about global oil economy. Ojinnaka Obi Asika, Director – General of National Council for Arts and Culture, […]
Agbogidi, Asika in Nafest, by Emeka Obasi
Those who do not know Igwe Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe are missing out in so many areas. The Obi of Onitsha, a lover of Arts and Culture, is as polished as the most exposed diplomat and knows almost everything about global oil economy. Ojinnaka Obi Asika, Director – General of National Council for Arts and Culture, […]
